Mekong fishes vital for tens of millions of people and health of river but one-fifth face extinction At least 1,148 fish species in the Mekong – around 25% – are found nowhere else on Earth World’s ...

Both within and between nations, Southeast Asia’s largest river gives rise to competing, and in some cases conflicting, notions. In this Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2019, photo, fishing boats are moored in ...

The first-ever acoustic telemetry network in the Mekong River has tracked key migration corridors critical to the survival of fish in Cambodia and Laos. To conduct the study, researchers caught fish ...

A new study has found that the Mekong River’s largest freshwater fish are shrinking in size, with critically endangered species like the giant catfish and giant barb now averaging less than half their ...

I first began covering the Mekong River in Southeast Asia almost two decades ago, encountering fish so immense they seemed almost mythical: giant freshwater stingrays weighing as much as a grand piano ...

An aerial view of the dam at the Jinghong Hydropower Station on the Lancang River, the Chinese part of the Mekong River, in Jinghong city, Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, southwest China’s ...